Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-08-11
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

The house OF Thomas Jose was
burned at Highmore. Loss, $4,000;
fully insured.
The Clark County Agricultural as.
| ISOLATION will hold their third annual
tair at Clark this fall.
4 farewell party was given to Gov.
Church at Huron. It was held in the
largest hall in town, and is said to
have been the most magnificent recep.
ton ever given at that place.
Henry Severn, q farmer living south
OF jamestown, was struck by lightning
recently and instantly killed.
The total valuation OF Minnehaha
county is 81, 600, 600. That of the
city of Sioux Fall is 5 3,712,000.
Surveyors are fixing the line for the
Daluth. Watertown & Pacific railroad.
ard will have it graded to Huron IRON
Watertown this gear.
Frank S. Hankey, long identified
with the prosperity of Grand Forks,
died of apoplexy. Mr.. Hankey was
81 years old. He was for a long time
a resident of st. Paul, and was prom.
inent in business circles.
The owners of the Troy farm at Tap
pan have served an order on County
Treasurer Fridley restraining him
from collecting real tax, This trou.
BILE arose because Kidder county re-
fuses to recognize Tappan as a part
of Stanton coudty.
At Madison Judge Francis, OF the
district court, ordered several gentle
men out of the court room because
they were in their shirt sleeves.
Deputy United State Mining Sur
yeyor Whites commission at Dead
wood has been revoked. Seveal irreg-
ularities were reported. The direct
cause of his suspension is his recent
letter to the London Financial News
pronouncing the Horney Peak Tin
company a gigantic fraud.
At DEVILS Lake. a freight train ran
into a construction train telescoping
the sleeper and caboose, killing Henry
Finke OF Minneapolis, fatally iniuring
Peter Carlson, and iniuring several
others.
At Deadwood Oak, the Father De-
Smet mill was adroitly robbed OF am
algam valued at $1,000. During the
night a hole was cut from the outside
through the building and the chest,
and the amalgam taken.
A dispatch reports the killing of An
ton Lonsted, a farm hand at Har-
wood, by lightning, and of Henry Bahr,
also by lightning. at Davenport, while
his employer, John Homer. was
stunned and had a horse killed. Hail
did considerable damage to the fields
of Mrs. Cross. Mrs. Bishop, Robert
Lester and L. ". Mcknight at Maple
ton and William Eggert, J.T. Erdman
and many Others near Davenport
and Leonard.
At Howard, during aheavy thunder
storm liPhtning struck the barn of
County Attorney Gengle entirely con
sum:ng it and contents. The loss is
about SO, 900.
A dispatch from Blunt, of the 30,
says the heaviest wind, rain, hail and
thunder storm of the year visited
that section lasting two hours. Hal
could have been shoveled from the
ground in places by the scoop full.
Great damage has been done to many
buildings through broken glass, while
much stock was killed by the light
ming.
The U. s. secretary OF State received
from the consul at Christiana a dis.
patch announcing the death of Knud
Helgesen Roanz, whose residence was
Portland, Dakota. He died in Nor
way.
The third annual territorial fair I'M
der the auspices of the Dakota board
of agriculture will be held at Mitchell
September &c to 80 inclusive. The
outlook is encouraging for an excel
lent display at that time. Five hun
d red stalls are finished to accommo
date the stock. The grounds and
buildings will be considerably enlarged.
Free power will be furnighe / for the
machinery display. Bicycle contests,
horse races and balloon ascensions
will make an interesting programme
for each day. Passenger rates on the
railroads WI be one fare for the round
trip. A handsome premium list has
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fered in premiums, besides gold, silver
and bronze medals.
Dakota druggists held an annual
meeting at Fargo. The following off.
GERS we're elected: President, A. B.
Bennett, Devils Lake; first vice presi
dent, ID. NJ. Holmes of Grand Forks;
second vice president, Fred Vogell, La
Moure; treasurer, E. C. Maxey, Fargo;
secretary, III. G. Hassawan, Grafton.
August Shultz vas killed neal
Watertown while attempting to
drive a Mr.. King from a claim.
Schultz made an ante-mortem state.
ment in which he said he burned Kings
house and meant to and kill him, as
King had got his claim. Shultz lived in
olmstead county, MINI.
The following pensions have been
granted: Dakota. j. III. Mead,
Grand View; Z. NJ. Gallagan Clark;
A. Chandler, Cannin; W. d. Stiles.
Sioux Fails.
In court at Mandan. Judge Francis
on addressing the grand jury called
their attention to the state of affairs
in Mercer county. He ordered them
to make q full investigation. In the
case of Adams againt the Northern
Pacific for personal injuries, the Jury
awarded the plaintiff $1,000.
A bolt of lightning struck the house
of Thomas Porter, one mile north oil
Okobogi, Sully county, killing him in
stantly. He leaves a wife and three
children.
A heavy rain storm with consider
able electricity visited Clark. The
barn of George ID. Brown. three miles
northeast OF here. was destroyed by
lightning; loss. $500. The barn of d.
ID. Jacobs, twelve miles southwest,
was also burned.
The recent torrid weather was par
cicularly trying and deadly in the
great cities. The mortality record in
Brooklyn shows that for the six
months ending July 2, the deaths in
that city numbered 1886. being s21
more than in the corresponding six
month, of 1886, and representing an